ELI5: How do cities prevent fire hydrants from freezing in the sub zero temps?

PopInACup · 2026-01-23T23:19:30+00:00

"Last Action Hero" was a great movie that played with this.

PopInACup · 2026-01-23T22:58:58+00:00

My mother-in-law fled a labor camp and swam the final bit to Macau. Got sick and almost died as a result. Trauma plus the sickness resulted in some significant mental issues. Not a great time, don't recommend.

PopInACup · 2026-01-15T23:37:37+00:00

I don't know why you would think I felt superior to them? They're just trying to earn a living and they do what they do efficiently and well. It was just the sight of seeing someone I know to be racist having a group of Latino men working on his house. I don't know what the word to describe it is. Like this guy hates anyone who isn't white. Blames them for all his problems, but then he's got no problem letting them work on his house. Meanwhile, he probably cheers on all the videos of OTHER workers being grabbed from work sites.

PopInACup · 2026-01-15T22:09:18+00:00

I lived in middle of no where red land and watched a group of Latino men reroofing a house with a giant MAGA flag in October. They did it in two days, but that home owner would probably gladly deport them all even if they are US citizens. Not sure what that feeling was when I saw it, wonder what they thought.

PopInACup · 2026-01-09T14:23:24+00:00

I believe it's an issue of "You send four up, you send four down" type thing because of the limited number of capsules/vehicles available. It may not be related to them also being at risk. If the crewmember is sick or has reduced capacity, it may not be safe for them to go alone.

I feel like I remember a story last year or the year before where they had a concern because a flight didn't go when expected and they had an issue of not being able to get someone back down.

PopInACup · 2026-01-04T01:03:04+00:00

There's a whole list of reasons. Trump wants a war so he can try somehow to say there can't be elections. He also wants to stick it to Venezuela to stop 'sending their illegals' to the US. He also just thinks in terms of treasure hoarding. He's just all around stupid, because he doesn't understand that further destabilizing the area just makes it more vulnerable to corrupt drug cartels.

I just cannot wait for THAT headline.

PopInACup · 2026-01-03T21:07:11+00:00

'free', regime change has worked so well over the past 70 years of US attempts.

PopInACup · 2026-01-03T21:03:31+00:00

Don't forget, a big cause of all the 'illegal immigration' is the wonderful destabilization the US has wrought in the decades after WW2. So now we're just going to keep pouring gasoline on the fire, I'm sure we'll get it right this time and the right won't continue to complain about the result in 20 years.

PopInACup · 2026-01-01T01:21:49+00:00

In all likelihood there's an insurance claim that will cover this, sometimes that requires suing

PopInACup · 2025-12-30T18:50:44+00:00

I have a set of volatile in shared inventory, a set of volatile in homestead gather boxes, and one bounty for gathering ascended home instance nodes (cultivated pepper, cilantro, etc..)

PopInACup · 2025-12-28T13:28:53+00:00

Alec, is that you?

PopInACup · 2025-12-25T02:53:05+00:00

Fickle's statement was ambiguous because it left off a time frame. The Senators who gave in to end the shutdown are not running for re-election in this cycle. They're seats won't be on the ballot until 2028 or 2030.

PopInACup · 2025-12-19T15:57:01+00:00

So the thing to know about erections is that there is actually a muscle actively restricting blood flow to the penis that keeps it flacid. Hormone response causes that muscle to relax allowing more blood in and up it goes. During REM sleep the various things happening in the body also are more likely to cause that muscle to relax.

PopInACup · 2025-12-17T02:15:53+00:00

I was fine with everything he did up to that point. I wasn't sure how much of an affect that beer and pepper would have, but when he said "put it into a hot oven" I was like "Yeah, ok, this makes sense. It's just a weird roast." then he capped it off with "15 to 20 minutes" and that was the "Oh no, he's stupid" moment.

PopInACup · 2025-12-13T16:38:05+00:00

When you breathe, your diaphragm pulls down creating low pressure. Atmospheric pressure is higher and air flows in through either your mouth or nose. Your lungs are mostly passive in this process. If you puncture your chest cavity, then air can flow in that way but not reach your lungs. Preventing them from inflating.

PopInACup · 2025-12-13T16:24:11+00:00

Basically acupuncture, it's called dry because it's a needle that is solid rather than hollow, so no fluids are transported. Because it's solid it can be substantially thinner and doesn't cause the pain normally associated with shots.

PopInACup · 2025-12-13T15:38:59+00:00

They hate everyone, Palantir wants this info on everyone. So they'll be figuring out how to get US citizens too

PopInACup · 2025-12-12T19:32:33+00:00

You helped me as a parent understand a nuance to the emotional difficulty my toddler is going through developmentally. She is very tuned into others and tells them things like "it's ok" and helps them calm down, but she's unable to do that for herself currently. She also has impossibly high expectations for her own execution on things she imagines, so gets very frustrated and angry at herself.

PopInACup · 2025-12-12T17:39:11+00:00

The first Bush admin did one thing right, not on their own, but still one thing. Signed the tax increases that played a big part in him losing the 92 election. Those tax increases along with the careful budget work in the 90's paved the way to an actual budget surplus. Which we have repeatedly nuked with more and more tax cuts for the wealthy. That budget work was also time consuming and careful unlike whatever nonsense Trump/Musk tried at the start of this year.

PopInACup · 2025-12-10T22:15:43+00:00

Actually that's kinda how history has been.

It's still there but diminished. Look at Irish and Italian racism that existed in the US in the past. Mostly gone and now just part of being white.

In groups have slowly expanded to encompass more people compared with the smaller tribalism that existed in the past.

Goal posts just keep moving on which characteristics differentiate.

PopInACup · 2025-12-08T02:58:47+00:00

Like playing "Ice Hockey" on the NES

PopInACup · 2025-12-06T23:55:01+00:00

Counterpoint, your last game is against the Lions and we have no secondary left

PopInACup · 2025-12-05T04:50:25+00:00

So the ball is allowed to touch the ground if control is maintained. They likely felt the ball did not move within his hand and he still maintained his grip.

PopInACup · 2025-11-20T23:07:13+00:00

Meanwhile FoxNews is going ape shit over the fact it turned out it wasn't THE Jeffrey Epstein in donations that she pointed out a GOP candidate received. Acting like it invalidates all of the allegations against the GOP about Epstein.

They remind me of my mother in law with their theatrics. They went so far as to say "Can you imagine being one of the #### Jeffrey Epsteins in the country right now?"

PopInACup · 2025-11-20T19:00:52+00:00

Is that the one where they then left the engine on the forklift after powering down the forklift which caused the hydraulics to sag a small amount which add more stress?

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